Here’s what to know
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know → ’ → what
- More than 58 million Americans have already voted early, surpassing the total cast before Election Day in the 2022 midterms.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said the Democrats are “nauseously optimistic” about taking back the Senate.
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Democrats → vote → Senate
- Some voters in Florida had to make alternative arrangements on Tuesday due to at least 19 polling stations being moved over extreme flooding.
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stations → have → flooding
- The New York Attorney General’s office is "monitoring" issues with ballot scanners in a New York county, after multiple reports of issues at polling stations.
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office → monitor → stations
The Trump Administration’s forceful approach to election oversight has seen the Justice Department send 1,000 election monitors across all 50 states.
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Department → see → states
Acton says Ramaswamy ad featuring her estranged mother "crossed the line"
Nov 3, 12:39 PM
Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Amy Acton told reporters that an ad released by her Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign "crossed a line."
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ad → say → line
“I have felt all along that there's no low he won't go to.
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he → feel → ?
I think he is out of touch.
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he → think → touch
He's out for himself,” she said, after casting her ballot at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
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she → say → Columbus
The ad featured Acton’s mother, who has not spoken to her daughter since 1978 when she defended Acton’s stepfather who was indicted for raping Acton as a child.
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who → feature → child
The campaigning move sparked controversy and condemnation across both sides of the political aisle.
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move → spark → aisle
Ramaswamy has doubled down on the ad, receiving the support of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.
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Ramaswamy → double → Trump
However, other Republicans, including Ohio Sen. Jon Husted, who is facing a tight re-election bid against Democrat Sherrod Brown, said they would not have run the ad.
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they → include → ad
The race to succeed Gov. Mike DeWine, who is barred from seeking another term, has become unexpectedly competitive in Ohio, a state Trump won by double digits in 2024.
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Trump → succeed → 2024
Polling ahead of the midterms suggested a tight race, with Acton holding a slight lead.
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Acton → suggest → lead
If she wins, it would be the first time in 20 years that Ohio voters had elected a Democrat as governor.
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voters → win → governor
What Early Voting data can show about the midterms
Nov 3, 12:30 PM
As Election Day unfolds, Americans are beginning to wait in line at their polling centers.
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Americans → show → centers
But tens of millions already cast their ballots during their states' early voting periods, and those responses offer a preview into how the midterm elections may play out.
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elections → cast → preview
That figure already represents close to half of the roughly 122 million Americans who voted in the 2022 midterms.
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who → represent → midterms
Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida who runs the Election Lab, stresses to TIME that early voting data cannot in and of itself be relied on to predict the outcome of the elections.
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data → run → elections
But he says it can reveal other informative aspects of voting behavior.
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it → say → behavior
“Once you start seeing consistency across multiple days of voting and across multiple states, it starts giving us more confidence that whatever we're seeing in terms of relative engagement, that's likely going to carry through to election day,” McDonald says.
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McDonald → start → day
Haley Stevens doubles down on split from Abdul El-Sayed
Nov 3, 11:50 AM
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Stevens → double → Sayed
Rep. Haley Stevens is standing by her last-minute move to endorse Republican candidate Mike Rogers instead of Abdul El-Sayed, whom she lost the Michigan Democrats' Senate primary to in August.
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she → stand → August
When asked if her decision was worth all of the backlash she has received, Stephens told NewsNation: “Absolutely, voting is always worth it.”
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voting → ask → NewsNation
“It’s the people’s day, I’ve told this to our next Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries, its ‘majority maker’s’ day,” she said, pointing to her confidence that the Democrats can flip the House.
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Democrats → ’ → House
Stevens has been widely criticised by fellow Democrats since she announced her shock endorsement over the weekend.
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she → criticise → weekend
House Minority Leader Jeffries led the support for El-Sayed, championing the candidate as someone who “will always put the American people first and fight hard to lower the high cost of living.”
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who → lead → living
Jeffries went on to describe Rogers as “a partisan hack who represents more of the same MAGA extremism.”
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who → go → extremism
The final set of New York Times/Siena polls released on Nov. 1 showed El-Sayed leading 53% to Rogers’ 42% among likely voters.
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Sayed → release → voters
Trump says U.S. will stop $4 billion in aid to Israel by year-end
Nov 3, 11:20 AM
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is cutting off aid to Israel, citing a deal he reached “months ago” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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he → say → Netanyahu
Dialling into Fox News Tuesday morning, as voters across America headed to the polls, Trump said: “We've already agreed that by the end of this year, we won't be paying Israel.
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we → dial → Israel
Now we'll help Israel if they need it."
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they → help → it
It was not immediately clear which funding Trump was referring to or how the Administration planned to halt it, given that the existing Memorandum of Understanding provides for $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel through 2028.
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Memorandum → refer → 2028
Netanyahu earlier in the year said he was eager to "draw down" U.S. financial support for Israel "to zero.”
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he → say → zero
U.S. aid to Israel and Washington's conflict in the Middle East have been among the most contentious issues leading up to the midterms.
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aid → lead → midterms
Trump's announcement on election day comes amid continued debate over the country's support for Israel.
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announcement → come → Israel
The Iran war—which started on Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iranian targets—is currently in its ninth month and remains deeply unpopular with Americans.
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U.S. → start → Americans
The conflict is estimated to have cost American taxpayers around $47.1 billion so far.
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conflict → estimate → billion
Furthermore, Americans have had to shoulder the gasoline prices that have soared as a result of the unrest—a point many Democratic candidates mentioned in their campaigns leading up to the midterms.
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candidates → have → midterms
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